Improvement in tiles for roofing



vv-I'LtlAM UTLEY, or TROY, NEWYORK.'

i Letters Patent No. 108,068, dated October 4, 1870.

IMPRQVEMENT iN riti-:s lFon Roanne, ac.

The Schedine referred to intheae Letters Patent and making part of thesame.4

To all who'nt 'it may concern Y Be it known that I, WILLIAM UTLnY, ofTroy, in

i the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented aneurand usefulvImprovernent in Tiles for Itooing, and other purposes; and Idohereby declare the followingto he a full,.clear, and vexactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing ofthe same,whieh makes part of this specification, andl in which- `Figure1 is a plan view of several-sections ofniyv improved tiling puttogether.V

Figure 2 represents a section through two ofthe tiles at the line a: :tof fig. 1. Figure 3 represents a section of two of the tiles ta` ken atright angles to the view'slmwn in iig. 2 at' the line o alot' iig. 1..Figure 4 is a perspectiye' view of one of the tiles.

My improvement relates to tiles for rooting and Honing, and consistsinmolding the sections of the same in such manner as to form squares,which will l have a recess and a .rebate on 'theirfour sides, therebyproducing `a` recess and 'a rebate alternately around two sides onlymftheir opposite faces, for the purpose of matching them one with eanotherby overlapping joints, which, 'when properly' cemented, constitute asolid tiling or flooring of broken joint-s,'eutirely'waterl proof.

In the accompanying drawing-#- A represents the sections of the tiling,molded of any suitablesize, of porcelain, china, terra-eottapredbrick-clay, or any suitable material. fll'ley are formed ofsuchthickness as will allow their opposite faces to project an equaldistance, and of equall thickness around their edges, so asy to form arecess, a, and a rebate, b, around two sides of their opposite faces,Ywhich will produce the same figure alternately aronnd lits four sides;that yis to say, the rebate b will project from two sidesv on itstop,and from4 the two opposite sideson its bottom,- in order that, whenproperly matched, the rebatesof the upper side of one tile will overlapthe lower rebates of the two adjacent tiles'.

The recesses a and the rebates b being equal in all respects, they, ofcourse, match, one within the other,

y with the joint of the lower rebate covered by that of the upper one.

The sections Aare also pnt together,.so as to break the -joints of theupper rebates, and they are cemented in Atheir place and to ea'eh otherby said rebates. l

The outside sections, of course, `have only three of their sides madewith the recesses and rebates above described, and the tiling may beused forA internal, as

well as erternal decoration, and may he painted onor-,

namented at pleasure.' j l When used for eellartiling, they may 4be madeabout as thick as the common brick.

' Having described my invention,

,Ielaim- The sections A, of tiling, made with recesses a and rebates b,so that, when laid together as herein shown, they will overlap, match,and break-joints each with its` adjoining neighbor, inthe manner and forthe purp ose ,set forth. i

In testimony whereof Imhave hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM UTLEY.

Y, Witnesses:

SAMUEL4 IEosrnn,4 E. W. GREENMAN.

